A reporter for a Nashville television station who covered the deadly school shooting on Monday had an unfortunate familiarity with the situation.

Joylyn Bukovac, a reporter at WSMV-Channel 4, was a student at Discovery Middle School in Madison when a shooting occurred there in 2010.

In a story on the television station’s website, Bukovac said she witnessed the shooting in the hallway of ninth-grader Todd Brown on Feb. 5, 2010. Bukovac said she was 13 years old and in the eighth grade at the time. Another student, Hammad Memon, pleaded guilty to murder in 2013.

She was among the reporters who responded to The Covenant School in Nashville on Monday. Three students and three adults, as well as the shooter, were killed in the school shooting.

Bukovac first announced on air that she had been present at a school shooting as a student while reporting on The Covenant School shooting Monday.

“I can’t even put into words what was going through my mind,” Bukovac told her TV station about arriving at Covenant Presbyterian on Monday morning. “My heart broke for those families and at the same time my fight or flight response. Adrenaline was just pumping through my veins because I know what those kids were experiencing, unfortunately, and I know what it’s like to hide from a shooter.”

Bukovac did not respond Wednesday to a request for comment from AL.com.

Bukovac said in the WSMV story that she hid behind the bleachers in her music classroom.

“My stuff was part of the crime scene. I couldn’t even take my backpack home that day,” Bukovac said. “I really just felt like a sitting duck not knowing if I was going to make it out of that school alive. Which is awful because every child should feel safe at school. No one should come to school anticipating possibly getting hurt, injured or experiencing something like this.”

Bukovac said it’s common for children who have been through a situation such as a school shooting to not want to immediately talk about it.

“Just tell them that you a here to talk when they are ready,” Bukovac said. “I think that is a big key, and don’t make them feel guilty about not wanting to talk.”